Metaphysics Quotations

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.

Metaphysics is a science.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.